Citizen Cohn (1992)

Directors

Frank Pierson

Cast

James Woods, Joe Don Baker, Joseph Bologna, Ed Flanders

The story

The film spans Cohn's life from childhood through his initial rise to power as Joseph McCarthy's right-hand man in the Senate subcommittee hearings of the 1950s, and eventually to his public discrediting a month before his death from AIDS in 1986. It is told mostly in flashback as Cohn lies dying at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, hallucinating that his many enemies — from Robert F. Kennedy to Ethel Rosenberg, a convicted Communist spy Cohn had sent to the electric chair — are haunting him.

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